Robert Oliver: 47 books
by Henry James, M. R. James, E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
Pollution
Causes, Effects and Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Twenty years on from the first edition of Pollution and the topic remains high in the public awareness. Environmental pollution is now a major area of research, consultancy and technological development and is a priority for the political agendas of both the developed and developing worlds.
The...
Field-cycling NMR Relaxometry
Instrumentation, Model Theories and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Field-cycling NMR relaxometry is evolving into a methodology of widespread interest with recent technological developments resulting in powerful and versatile commercial instruments. Polymers, liquid crystals, biomaterials, porous media, tissue, cement and many other materials of practical importance...
Managing Human Resources in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Entrepreneurship and the Employment Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Well-managed employment relationships can be a secret to business success, yet this factor is relatively poorly understood when it comes to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s).
Written by active researchers with teaching experience, this book brings together the fields of entrepreneurship...
by Barbara Adam, Wendell Bell, Michael Burawoy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Public sociology—an approach to sociology that aims to communicate with and actively engage wider audiences—has been one of the most widely discussed topics in the discipline in recent years. The Handbook of Public Sociology presents a comprehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory...
Postphenomenological Methodologies
New Ways in Mediating Techno-Human Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This edited volume is the first publication to tackle the issue of researching human-technology relations from a methodological postphenomenological perspective. While the ‘traditional’ phenomenology of the 20th century, with figures like Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, provided valuable...
Rights, Risk and Restraint-Free Care of Older People
Person-Centred Approaches in Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The restraint of older people is a pressing issue for health and social care practice. This book provides health and social care professionals with an authoritative reading resource on the ethics and use of restraint.
The book provides an overview of the different forms of restraint, the conditions...
by Zygmunt Bauman, Donatella della Porta, Nancy Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization....
Vulnerable Children and the Law
International Evidence for Improving Child Welfare, Child Protection and Children's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Global support for improving child welfare and upholding the rights of children is strong, but in practice often fails to recognise the emerging gap between traditional child welfare practices and the evolving nature of child vulnerability.
This book takes an international perspective on child...
Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic
Advancing New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic: Advancing New Perspectives marks 50 years of writing and cultural production on the phenomenon of camp since Susan Sontag’s 1964 cornerstone essay “Notes on ‘Camp’.” It provides cutting-edge theory and understanding on ways to read and interpret camp through...
Perry Rhodan Neo Paket 7: Epetran
Perry Rhodan Neo Romane 61 bis 72
Language: German
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Im Sommer 2037 haben Perry Rhodan und seine Gefährten endlich das Arkon-System erreicht, das Zentrum des Großen Imperiums. In einem Sternhaufen außerhalb der Milchstraße ballen sich zahlreiche besiedelte Sonnensystemen, und Arkon selbst ist eine Ansammlung faszinierender Welten. Doch zum Staunen...
by Yvonne Yi-Wood Mak, Haifa Al Sanousi, Ashley Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts describes a range of successful programmes pioneered by artists, writers, nurses, musicians, therapists, social workers, and chaplains in palliative care settings. These range from simple painting and writing activities to organized communal activities like...
by Midwest Journal Press, Oliver Hartley, Dr. Robert C. Worstell
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
The Classic Guide to Hunting Dogs and Their Training
As if hunting for profit, night hunting for either pleasure or gain and professional hunting generally had no importance, writers of books have contented themselves with dwelling on the study and presentation of matters relating solely to...
by Oliver Keszocze, Robert Wille, Rolf Drechsler
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
This book presents exact, that is minimal, solutions to individual steps in the design process for Digital Microfluidic Biochips (DMFBs), as well as a one-pass approach that combines all these steps in a single process. All of the approaches discussed are based on a formal model that can easily...